Re: [PATCH] Debian packaging for 0.99.4

From: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org>
Date: Aug 11, 2005, 23:09 UTC
Message-ID: <1123801793.17147.12.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <E1E3LPr-0005fs-D5@highlab.com>

On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 16:20 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:

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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> > Hands up people. Does anybody _use_ GNU interactive tools? None of this "I 
> > have a package" crap.
> 
> Obviously no one on the git list uses GNU Interactive Tools, or this
> problem would have been caught much sooner.
> 
> It's only when you release it into the wild that these kind of things
> get noticed.  If only it weren't for the fuc*ing users, man...

Hi,

I still have to meet somebody who actually ever used GNU Interactive Tools.

I'd recommend to just conflict with GNU Interactive Tools and be done with it.

1. It's an upstream decision by Linus
2. You are the maintainer of the package. Just take a stand and put the
bug reports in wontfix mode.

Being a long time Debian maintainer I'd note that in Debian you've got to take ownership to get things done.

			Christian

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